Rethinking the Republic of Letters: Memory and Identity in Early Modern Learned Communities - Couverture rigide

Scholten, Koen

 
9789048559855: Rethinking the Republic of Letters: Memory and Identity in Early Modern Learned Communities
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9048559855 ISBN 13 : 9789048559855
Editeur : Amsterdam University Press, 2025

Synopsis

This book offers a revisionist look at the historiography of the Republic of Letters and the community of learning in early modern Europe. It suggests a new approach, conceptualising the learned world as a web of imagined communities in which the members do not know all their peers. These communities formed through distinct memory cultures and the representation of and identification with collective identities. Rethinking the Republic of Letters looks at early modern biographical dictionaries (vitae), eulogies, letters, travelogues, and funerary monuments of early modern learned men to trace the (re)formation of these communities. It thereby offers a novel perspective on early modern learned communities - the many Republics of Letters.

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À propos de l?auteur

Koen Scholten is a historian of science and published on memory and identity in scholarly and scientific communities. He edited Memory and Identity in the Learned World (Brill, 2022) and received his PhD from Utrecht University on a thesis on the formation of early modern communities in the world of learning in 2023.

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Éditeur
Amsterdam University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9048559855
ISBN 13 
9789048559855
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
412
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